The Best Express Beauty Treatments Nationwide

There’s never been a time like now, when we expect so much, so fast. We’re always on 25/8, it’s like no one wants to wait – and if something is going to take a while to dry or set before you can do another thing, chances are we’re going to be even less inclined to do the essential beauty stuff. So, to help you plan your pampering, here are my favourite fast-track beauty treatments to help limit your “dwell time” without compromising on style. Grab a seat, I won’t take long!

I WANT IT NOW!
Beauty on demand: don’t wait, don’t queue, just walk-in or book online!

Bobbi Brown Quick Instant Makeup How To takes just 15 mins and is redeemable against purchase. Check out services on counters offered by your other favourite make-up brands too. Speaking of which, express beauty bars just keep racking up along the high streets, from Benefit to Clarins BeautyBAR. Walk in feeling frazzled, walk out feeling fabulous – in a matter of minutes.

A skin workout in just 10 mins Face Gym FG Workouts, £20 at Selfridges and Harrods and the new flagship on Kings Road, from FG Cardio to FG Scalp, help stimulate blood flow using intense massage. Proof that massage works… in those few minutes you’ll be amazed at the difference.

Blink Brow Bar Classic Brow Shaping, £19, takes just 15 mins of brow threading and makes an enormous shift in your look, akin to a mini facelift. Even if just for once, try a pro brow: it’s transformational.

For a high-tech mani, Nails Inc The Mindful Manicure, £60 at Harvey Nichols Beauty Lounge, in collaboration with The Light Salon, files, shapes and polishes, plus gives a session of skin rejuvenating light therapy. For a quick tidy, the 15-minute Quick Fix, £28, will file, shape and polish plus do cuticle pushback; for your toes, just add on an extra 5 mins, £35.

ALLOW 30 MINUTES

LVL Enhance Treatment

I have long hair, yet it took just 20 mins plus a bit of chat for Redken Ambassador Jonathan Long of Lockonego to paint on the new Redken Heatcure Professional Restoration Service, which feels and works like wax to seal and smooth hair for up to 10 washes. Just £20 extra on top of your blow-dry

It’s not just beauty that’s speeding up, now you can fit a fitness class into your lunchbreak too. Low impact, high-results Barrecore this month launches the Signature Express Class, nationwide. It costs £20 for 45 minutes of stretching, pulsing and barre-based exercise with a complimentary healthy snack to take away afterwards. If you like to break a sweat with minimal impact on your joints then spin is your thing – Psycle London run 35 minute express classes througout the week, or try Sweaty Betty’s free fitness classes in stores throughout the UK- from 45 minute yoga in Leeds, 45 minute salsa in Tunbridge Wells to 30 minute HIIT in Soho.